Very cool, thanks... I'll try it out again when I get in this afternoon. Nice thing about this script is that it will fit nicely
into rc3.d or /etc/runlevels.
Just got finished installing gentoo linux this weekend on my primary partition (left RH7.3 on my secondary).
I can't begin to tell you how much faster it is! My KDE performance is probably 50% faster. It helps to recompile glibc and kde with the newest binutils (2.12+ that has the new combreloc added in).
I pretty much built everything from scratch, you'd be amazed at having things compiled from the ground floor with the right compiler options. (i686 makes a huge difference, most everything these days in prepackaged formats ends up with i386).
It took me no time to get the majority of my functionality shifted from my RH partition over to the gentoo one. I may end up moving everything over eventually. For now dual boot will work, but I have a feeling that she will be going to way of the dodo before too long. The emerge portage system is really cool too, it makes system updates a snap. Give the distro a shot if you guys get the chance, I bet you won't be disappointed. I had showeq back up and running in a couple of hours after got the system stable. (had to rebuild my kernel a few times).
I was able to port my websites, database servers, mail configuration over in the course of a days time.
Its definitely easier getting showeq running correctly on gentoo than it is on RH7.3 (I was having issues with the new one colocating gcc 3.0.4 and 2.96)
I got the tip about Gentoo from Ratt, I'll have to send him a thank you note, this distro rocks! One odd thing, that I've actually come to like is they do not provide a telnetd daemon, it's sshd or nothing baby.. Makes it harder for me to get to it from work where we only have a telnet proxy, but I can just telnet to my prod boxes then ssh from there.
Very slick...
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